Sentences with phrase «white suburb about»

Unfortunately «in my area» didn't mean in the Twin Cities proper, which is where I live; it meant in a rich, white suburb about 35 minutes away, not accounting for rush hour traffic.

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The verdict comes about three years after rioting broke out in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson when an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer.

In a recent profile with The New York Times, Jason Blum — the producer behind Get Out, Jordan Peele's massively popular 2017 thriller about a young black man who faces a terrifying form of racism in a predominantly white suburb — announced that one of his followup projects will be a horror film about black lesbians living in the «burbs, directed by Dee Rees.

It features Daniel Kaluuya — who was brilliant in Black Mirror and is just as mesmerizing here — as photographer Chris, who is nervous about heading into the suburbs to meet his white girlfriend (Girls» Allison Williams) Rose's wealthy family.

Many white families left cities to move to the suburbs — white flight» — though there is some debate about how much of this was caused by Brown and the racial integration of schools.

We lived in a Boston suburb, one that was about as lily - white as they come.

Today, when White speaks in support of the Common Core, he can seem to talk minimally (or too little) about its impact on middle - class schools, reserving his most impassioned rhetoric for the ways in which the Common Core will help the poorest and neediest in the state, offering those students the caliber of education rich kids in high - performing East Coast suburbs are getting.

Worried about falling home values because of their new neighbor, the rest of the white families in the inner city neighborhood would often sell their own houses at a loss and flee to the suburbs.